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Monday, December 14, 2020

Blackmail Agitations

Incompetence and unwillingness to wield power invariably lead to lawlessness in different domains of public life. For over 3 months the anti-national protesters with no real cause occupied Shaheen Bagh in Delhi over the CAA law. Predominantly a Muslim agitation it was supported by Commies and the Break-India forces. The media in India and some across the world celebrated it as some great accomplishment. In reality, it was nothing but blackmail by a community which spoke the language of “My way or highway”. Bad laws and laws that adversely affect any community or group can be challenged in our courts. But when the groups realise there is nothing wrong with the law then this form of blackmail on the streets starts. It is fueled by the most useless bunch of people who are not even adversely affected by the law in question.

The ModiSarkar has been given an unprecedented mandate – the highest since 1984, not once but twice. Yet, the GOI has proved to be incompetent when it has to confront unruly mobs and their violence. For over six years, the GOI has watched the brutal regime of Mamata Banerjee in Bengal. Almost every week some Hindu is killed, some Hindu temple or celebration is attacked and usually it’s a BJP worker that is killed. Even last weekend, Saikat Bhawal, another BJP worker was killed by TMC goons. All these six years ModiSarkar watched in dumbness but suddenly woke up to such violence when their new President JP Nadda was attacked. He wasn’t injured as he was in a bullet proof car. Almost all senior leaders of BJP came out to condemn Mamata and TMC. HM Amit Shah summoned the Chief Secretary and DGP of Bengal to Delhi. In mild words, the response from Mamata was “Go to hell” and her govt will not comply with the summons:

The Mamata govt should have been sacked at least four years ago when the violence and murders in Bengal had become a routine affair. Fear, incompetence and unwillingness to act reached a stage that even JP Nadda got attacked and now the Mamata-govt again dares Amit Shah to act against her knowing well she can play victim as elections are just four months away. When a govt with the highest mandate in decades doesn’t act against crime and criminals, its voters feel a loss of self-esteem and a sense of despondency. Mamata doesn’t care about the law, she is just blackmailing ModiSarkar to dare to act if it has the guts.

Unfortunately, Shah and Modi have repeatedly shown Mamata they don’t have the guts so now she refuses to comply with the summons on her Chief Secretary and DGP. She had once held a midnight “Dharna” in Kolkata to protect her corrupt cop Rajeev Kumar against arrest by CBI. That case and other cases like Sarada-Narada have been completely buried by ModiSarkar. And because ModiSarkar didn’t act, their BhajanMandli fools grandly offered the excuse of “Federal Structure” which prevents GOI from acting against lawlessness in a State. This foolish, self-defeating defence by morons is now in tatters as GOI wanted to act now after attack on Nadda but Mamata cares two hoots. Incompetence by Amit Shah has been consistent. In a silly response to the Rohingya issue during the Hyderabad Municipal elections campaign this is what Shah had to say:

I don’t think Amit Shah was aware of his moronery. The Ghetto-Queen Asad Owaisi taunted the BJP stating that if the Rohingyas were all illegal, why they were on the voter list and not evicted. It is a very valid question. Firstly, the GOI doesn’t act against the illegals, the GOI doesn’t make any effort to evict them, the Rohingyas get on the voter rolls and get Aadhar cards and all. Then the Home Minister of the country comically taunts Owaisi to give a written confirmation for evicting them because they make noises in the Parliament when the topic comes up. Such idiotic logic and comment by a HM is unbecoming. Why should Rohingyas be even discussed in Parliament? And even if they are discussed, why should noises from piddly one-man party like Owaisi be of any consequence to action in deporting them?

Cowardice leads to poor thinking. Poor thinking leads to incompetence. And incompetence leads to moronic tolerance of anti-nationals and fake farmers. The GOI started negotiations with the FAKE farmers and agitators without even asking for a written statement on what their objections to the ‘three farm Bills” were. It didn’t even occur to the ministers that they should have strongly demanded that FAKE farmers, Naxals and Maoists should be thrown out of the agitation if the farmers wanted any discussions. But failure to assert authority results in worse behaviour and blackmail. Who are these people and how in hell are they holding the govt to ransom with no real stake in farming:

The violence of the CAA riots was uncontrolled and finally culminated in the blockade of Shaheen Bagh. This template was borrowed from the Anti-Trump riots in the US and the GOI ignored the dangers associated with it. Shaheen Bagh was nothing but blackmail, aided by anti-nationals, seditionists and potential terrorists. That also led to the Delhi riots just around the Trump-visit resulting in death of 52 people. All this under the nose of the govt with the biggest mandate in decades. The Sikh-farmers agitation has been less violent. They battled police at Delhi borders throwing barricades off bridges but have settled down to the “blockade” tactic quickly. And the sit-in protest, as negotiations were on with the govt, was not only colourful but also provided some humour as the agitators more or less set up a mini township:

As the talks failed, they declared a Bharat Bandh on December 8 which flopped. They declared a blockade of the Delhi-Jaipur highway. I wonder why they don’t blockade roads and highways leading to Punjab. The Delhi-Jaipur highway goes all the way to Mumbai through Rajasthan and Gujarat. Obviously, the idea was to damage transport of goods to and from the heavily industrialised states of Gujarat and Maharashtra thus affecting economic activities. The plan didn’t take off. They had also planned to march 7000 tractors carrying 50000 farmers from Punjab to Delhi to further fuel the protests. The other route they planned to block was the Delhi-Agra highway which would affect UP. Such sinister plans are not made by ordinary farmers – these are made by anti-nationals who aren’t interested in any solution to any problem.

Invariably, in all such protests the anti-nationals and enemies of India play a prominent, noisy role. They either hype up the anti-India propaganda or the secessionist agenda. Khalistani voices were heard all around during the current agitation. This should have been dealt with very severely by the GOI but they failed again. A group called “Sikhs For Justice” (SFJ) wants Sikhs in the Indian Army to revolt. Other Khalistani groups in Canada, US and UK keep abusing India. One covered MK Gandhi’s statue in Washington DC with slogans of “Khalistan Zindabad”:

The GOI should have identified every such anti-national in the farmer crowd and detained each one. The GOI should have publicised the faces of the anti-nationals so that the country knew about who these organisers are. The blackmailer-leaders allow such voices to be publicised through speeches and images and then claim they are not connected in anyway. How else does one explain the agitation including a demand to release Sharjeel Imam, Umar Khalid and such terrorists and Naxals? Are these criminally-charged antinationals in anyway related to farmers?

Increasingly, these agitations have tended to be communal in nature. The CAA riots were mostly by Muslims with mild voices from Christians and Sikhs. The current farmer agitation choking Delhi is mostly made of Sikhs. The Sikhs first blocked the railway lines in Punjab and the GOI stopped railway services in the state. Having failed there, they decided laying siege to Delhi is the only answer. At the very first sight of tents and temporary shacks, the GOI should have forcibly cleared the encroachments and prevented any blockade. But ModiSarkar is scared of minorities and also scared of the farmer vote-bank even when 99% of the farmers are not with the Sikh agitators. The farmers are no less leeches in many cases. Since 2008, the Centre and States have waived off Rs.3.12 Trillion worth farmer loans.

This dangerous pattern of “Gheraoing” and “Choking” Delhi as the Sikh-agitators in their “Tractor march” call it has to be stopped in its tracks. They are not all real farmers, most of their demands are unfair and fake, they are infested with Khalistanis, Commies and Jihadis who want to wreck India. Indian economy is already struggling with Covid problems and unemployment. We need at least 3 years of uninterrupted peace across the country to recover to a healthy situation from the Covid situation and from the economic slump. Agitational Blackmailers have no place in this and should be stopped dead in their tracks before they even start.

 

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Saturday, July 21, 2012

BSNL - Illegal Blockade of MediaCrooks


Connecting India’! That’s the tag-line of the government telecommunication company called Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL). Lately, it seems to do a lot more than connecting India. It also seems to secretly and illegally disconnect India. From the evening of July 17 I have been receiving messages, even complaints, from regular readers of this blog that they haven’t been able to access MediaCrooks. It was initially surprising since I was able to access it and I had posted a fresh article early the next day on July 19. I thought it must be some temporary problems with the connection or the service providers of those readers. 
Then the messages kept growing and on checking I found that all of these readers were using internet services provided by BSNL. On the evening of July 18 I put out the following message through a tweet stating options readers could use to access the MediaCrooks articles: (Please click and open tweet images on a separate tab and enlarge to read)

I chose not to assume BSNL had blocked MediaCrooks or that there was a Central govt order of any kind to ban this site since it was accessible to users through other Internet service providers in India. I have been able to access the site, review comments and post articles (including this one) without any problems. But it does appear that BSNL has blocked access to the site. I wish to state in no uncertain terms to BSNL or any govt authority that this site does not contain any content that breaks any law of the land, does not contain any pornographic material, it’s not a commentary on religion that can disturb peace and harmony or result in riots, it is not even political in nature.

The objective of the site is to critique and expose the Indian mainstream media. In that, it surely does include politics, politicians and other people and entities in the context of media and their reporting and coverage of issues. Does this site offend certain sections of people and entities? Yes, it probably does and delights in the consequence of its articles! It delights in criticising the media when they act in an indiscriminate manner, when they lie, when they distort facts. It offends media personalities for their glaring blunders and deliberate manipulation of facts. MediaCrooks delights in criticising politicians when they utter nonsense or appear to support injustice. This will continue and it will not stop.

I have not received any notification or information of any kind on whether BSNL has blocked the site and, if so, for what reason. Now that BSNL users have not been able to access the site for over 3 days it would be fair to assume that some govt official must have passed on a clandestine, unwritten and illegal order to BSNL to block the site. If the govt has done so and if BSNL has obliged them then both are in serious violation of the law and my rights to publish my views. I also presume there has been no advice to Google, which hosts this site, on any objections to the content on this site else I am sure I would have heard from them. Thus it seems quite obvious and fair to assume the illegal blockage by BSNL has been instigated by some govt quarters. They were probably unhappy over criticism of some official, minister or politician precious to the govt.

On July 20 I wrote the following email (cvo@bsnl.co.in) to BSNL requesting an explanation of this blockage. I await a response:

I publish a site titled www.mediacrooks.com. Since the evening of July 18, 2012 I have been receiving complaints from readers through Twitter and by Email that those who were accessing the site through the Internet services of BSNL have not been able to access my site. I would request you to note the following points:

1. The complaints from readers through various sources have raised suspicion that BSNL has BLOCKED access to my site as a Censorship act and measure.
2. Please confirm if the blocking of my site is true and correct. In case access to my site has been blocked I have to state that I have no intimation from any government sources or your own organisation for the same. I wish to add that blocking access to my site is illegal and breaches the fundamental right of free speech and access to such content.
3. My site is essentially a critique of issues in the Mainstream Media and does not in any way break any law whatsoever.

I would request you to restore access to my website for users of BSNL's Internet service. In case you still continue to block access to the site as suspected by many readers please let me know on what grounds and for what reasons such access is blocked. A screenshot of complaints that were noticed on Twitter is also attached for your reference. This is being written without any prejudice to my legal rights.

While I wait for a response from BSNL I wish to assure readers that they can access content of MediaCrooks through other options in my tweet mentioned earlier. I also wish to state that if BSNL has indeed carried out the blockage then we must estimate what a dangerous tool it is in the hands of the govt and politicians. This is a good reason why govt must not be in control of any business, especially not a communication organisation. It is clearly a grave danger in a democracy. This is not an issue relating to a single blog site. This does bear a serious threat to every blogger and writer. Am I going to stop writing? Fat chance! I must mention though, that if I do not receive a satisfactory response from BSNL to my mail the issue won’t rest. As govt officials, politicians, media and ministers are so fond of quoting, I will use the same line that they do: “The issue will reach its logical conclusion and the law will take its own course”. In the meantime, I have a modest suggestion for BSNL. “Change your tag line, Change it to Dis-Connecting India”! 
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